On Monday, March 28, 2016 at 1:47:27 PM UTC+13, Sylvia Else wrote:
On 26/03/2016 4:02 AM, wrote:
"The European Space Agency recently announced plans for an international moon
base. The agency believes they could start building the complex in 20 years, with
different countries focusing on their areas of expertise."

See:

http://www.techinsider.io/esa-intern...-agency-2016-3


Twenty years is conveniently more than the likely tenure of anyone
currently responsible for getting the job done. Looks like a cash grab
that avoids the downside of failure.

Sylvia.

At 02:53:30 UTC
Monday, 28 March 2016 (now)

Moon Location, right ascension 15^h 47^m 35.3^s, declination -15° 48.1", distance: 403,452 km
It takes 3.5634 hours to get to the moon at one gee right now.

Mars Location, right ascension | 16^h 19^m 31.3^s, declination | -20° 27' 26", distance: 123.1 Mkm.
It takes 62.2441 hours to get to Mars at one gee right now.

Ceres Location, right ascension | 23^h 48^m 39.9^s, declination | -9° 58' 2.6", 586.6 Mkm
It takes 135.8756 hours to get to Ceres at one gee right now.

Vesta Location, right ascension | 2^h 29^m 10.3^s, declination | 10° 4' 38.6", distance 502.3 Mkm
It takes 125.7335 hours to get to Vesta right now at one gee.

Pallas Location, right ascension | 21^h 9^m 45.4^s, declination | 6° 51' 29.9", distance 594.0 Mkm
It takes 136.7296 hours to get to Pallas right now.

Hygeia Location, right ascension | 11^h 26^m 42.5^s, declination | -2° 28' 41.14", distance 289.9 Mkm
It takes 95.5198 hours to get to Hygeia right now.

A 3,000 kg useful load with a 7,000 kg empty weight, and 7,000 kg of Lithium-6 Deuteride pellets, boosts up to 330 hours at one gee, easily traversing the Solar System in days.

http://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/selfRepNASA.html

http://www.nanotech-now.com/utility-fog.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_acqe2R1hFE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXpkG93KzdY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tsr-XtuKuSw

Launch to Pallas, then less than an hour later, Ceres, then Vesta 10 hours after that, then Hygeia, 30 hours later then Mars 33 hours after that and finally, the Moon nearly 5 days after the first launch, restricting operations to the lunar far side, and a depth to 28 km. The moon processes the equivalent of 1 Ceres mass - and projects that mass into Solar orbit at Earth Sol L2 is 1.5 million beyond Earth relative to the Sun. All arrive at their destinations at the same time.

2723 colonies, each 2,000 km in diameter in a hexagonal close packed array that's 109,591 km across, 1.5 million km from Earth, form the location of colonies beyond Earth made from lunar resources. It takes 6.871 hours to boost 1.5 million km at one gee.

A similiar number of colonies, (2723 each 2,000 km in diameter) orbit at Mars-Sun L2 which is 1,000,000 km from Mars beyond the Sun forming a similar hexagonal close packed array. The entire surface of Mars is mined to a depth of less than 4 km to extract the equivalent of 1 Ceres mass to achieve this construction. It takes 5.610 hours to boost 1 million km at one gee.

http://astrogatorsguild.com/wp-conte...rs_lib_pts.pdf

2723 colonies each 2,000 km in diameter form an arc 5,446,000 km around Ceres in an orbit that circles the Sun at 2.7675 AU.

Pallas is the first to send a fleet of vehicles back to Earth, with others following suit, so that all arrive at the same time, 14 days after departure of the first probe to Pallas.

66 meter superyacht Invictus is representative of the size of vehicle constructed for each group of individuals to transport them back to space colonies that have the equivalent of the 8,000 acre Biltmore estate.

http://www.superyachts.com/motor-yac...cification.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRTFH3_Jo34

1485 metric tons - 318.2 tons useful load, 742.5 tons fully loaded, 742.5 tons Lithium-6 Deuterium. 12 guests - 50000 ships of this size can transfer 50,000 people per hour to Earth Sol Lagrange Point or 60,000 people per hour to the moon.

More ships operating at L2 transfer people beyond Earth to off-world colonies more distant. 1.5 million ships of this size operate at L2 once the L2 colonies are filled transfer 50,000 persons to the depths of the asteroid belt each day.

An array of 10,000 cities is also constructed on the moon, which blanket the lunar far side. Each city is built within a pressurised oblate sphere which consists of a ring 47.94 km in diameter that is 3.07 km wide, which spins to maintain a 1 gee force oriented 9.6 degrees from vertical - when the surface gravity is added to the centripetal acceleration. Each ring has housing for 810,000 persons at the same density and living standard as Monaco.. There is a seamless transition at the base between the moving ring and the stationary foundation upon which each ring is built, allowing inhabitants to walk or ride between the high gee and low gee region. Fusion propelled personal spacecraft of the size described, fly around the interior of the ring as they approach the moon and land on it, maintaining constant gee force throughout the flight. Similar maneuvers deliver vehicle to the interior of the rotating surfaces of the larger colonies. Three cities of up to 1 million each, are located on the L2 colonies providing the opportunity to own a second residence among the estates at L2. The infrastructure forms and dissolves based upon utility fog technology.

This technology once perfected is used later when colonies are established beyond Sol around the nearby G-type stars surrounding the Sol system.